User Ids for Entity Tracking using Guid type

Hi,

I want to implement Entity Tracking by tracking the time and user for the creation, update and deletion of an object/record. I have read the following sections in the LightSpeed 4 documentation and they have been very helpful:

• Entity Tracking
• Soft Deletion
• User Ids for Entity Tracking and Soft Deletion

These sections are very helpful and I enjoy the way this has been built into the LightSpeed framework. I believe this is one up on competing products. However, I see that the UserId properties that we must implement must be of type String.

My question is: Is there a way to set up these UserId properties (CreatedBy, UpdatedBy and DeletedBy) as type System.Guid? The reason for this is that my UserId in my application and database is of type Guid? Or are we stuck with only using the String type for these properties? If so, would you consider submitting this as a feature request for future releases?

Yes, this is a good suggestion. It really should allow it to be open rather than locking it down on the interface to a string but allowing the field to be set to anything. Because it would involve a breaking change to IAuditInfoStrategy I have added this in for the 5.0 branch so it will be changed there once we make this available.

Jeremy